Edit Languages: Bintzaila

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Region(s):	Haberria
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Introduction:	'''Bintzaila''' was the language of the [[Yendea]], the first humans, who lived on [[Haberria]]. It is the ancestor of every human language of [[Dalel]]. It is extinct.
Etymology:	''Bintzaila'' is the Bintzaila word for "language".
History:	Bintzaila was spoken on Haberria throughout the [[Age of Ascendance]]. In the [[Great Migration]] (0 – c. 60 ME), about 150,000 Yendea carried it in three armadas to [[Gosterra]], [[Hevaran]] and [[Hilisare]]. As the settlers and their descendants spread across Dalel, their speech drifted apart into the human languages spoken today, and Bintzaila itself ceased to be spoken.
Distribution:	Bintzaila was spoken only on Haberria. It survives in the words it passed to its descendants and in old names such as ''Haberria'' and ''Méniail''.
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Phonology:	Bintzaila had five vowels, ''a'', ''e'', ''i'', ''o'' and ''u''. Few words began with ''p'', ''t'', ''k'' or ''m''; most began with ''b'', ''d'' or ''g'' instead, as in ''bendialde'' and ''bizkar''. No word began with ''r''. Doubled consonants such as ''kk'' were common, as in ''nekkatso'', and the sibilants included ''s'', ''z'', ''ts'' and ''tz''.
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Cultural Significance:	Many names across Dalel can be traced to Bintzaila, among them [[Haberria]] ("homeland"), [[Yendea]] ("people") and [[Méniail]] (from ''bendialde'', "mountain land").
See Also:	* [[Yendea]] * [[Haberria]] * [[Great Migration]]
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